Krishna Reddy, Life Movement, color viscosity intaglio, edition 10, a proof apart from the numbered edition, 1972. Signed, titled, and annotated Imp. by the artist in pencil. Very scarce.
A superb, delicately colored, luminous impression, on cream wove paper, with margins (1 3/4 to 2 1/4 inches); very slight toning within a previous mat opening, otherwise in excellent condition.
Image size 11 7/8 x 19 5/8 inches (302 x 498 mm); sheet size 15 5/8 x 24 inches (397 x 610 mm).
Literature and Exhibitions:
– Krishna Reddy, A Retrospective, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Nov. 5 1981 - Feb. 28, 1982.
– Krishna Reddy—no ordinary printmaker, Rachel Spence, Financial Times, Mar 22, 2021.
– Heaven in a Wildflower (Krishna Reddy prints and sculpture), Print Center New York, January 23-May 21, 2025.
– Krishna Reddy: The Movement of Life, Philadelphia Museum of Art, August 2 - December 8, 2025.
Collections: M+ (Hong Kong), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum.
"In this plate I tried to realize the maxium effect of pure color juxtaposition by the pointillist and broken color process. To this end I had to develop new ways and means. I superimposed a series of aquatints using coarse to fine rosin and bit the plate seversl times, By burnishing and scraping away the roughness, I modeled aquatint areas from light to dark as one would normally proceed for printing in black and white, but this time it was to realize various intensities and combinations of colors. This was my most successful print at the time for conveying the power and spontaneity of expression using pointillist and broken colors in printing. A row of receding, vertical lines were constructed which proceeded to turn into more and more organic shapes of figures until finally opening up into a full radiating human figure."
—Krishna Reddy, Krishna Reddy, A Retrospective, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1981.
